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The Art of Shigeru Komatsuzaki

 
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Robert (Butch) Day
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:37 am    Post subject: The Art of Shigeru Komatsuzaki Reply with quote

I've been showing a lot of the work of Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Here is his 75th birthday picture:



He was born in Tokyo on February 14, 1915 and is one of the most prolific figures in science fiction in Japan from the 50’s all the way through till his death on December 7, 2001. He was almost 87.

His first published work, Shirogitsune Kidan (Mystery of the White Fox) was created while he was in his teens before he was recruited to draw mechanical hardware for a journal called Kikaika during the Second World War.

After the war he wrote and illustrated a number of books aimed at young adult readers like Daini no Sekai (Second World) and Kaitei Ōkoku (Undersea Kingdom) while he also worked as an art/production designer on several Japanese films like Chikyū Bōeigun (The Mysterians) and Uchū Daisensō (Battle in Outer Space) to name a few.

While around him the comics industry in Japan was starting to take off, Komatsuzaki chose to stick with creating large illustrations for various model companies that created military kits, Gundams and most notably for Thunderbirds and other Gerry Anderson properties like Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and UFO.

His last published illustrative work was for a tie in CD for Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty and unfortunately in 1995 the last of his creative archives were destroyed in a fire that destroyed his home. Komatsuzaki passed away on December 7, 2001 and is highly regarded by most Japanese science fiction and comic book writers as one of the most influential men in the genre.

A gallery of model box art can be found at: http://thunderbirds.wikia.com/wiki/Shigeru_Komatsuzaki
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at his artwork online, he certainly was talented - this was one of the nicest images I came across:




a shame to reduce its width from 1600 to 700 pixels...
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is a pre-production concept from a 3rd movie!

1st) The Mysterians (地球防衛軍 Chikyū Bōeigun, lit. Earth Defense Force) (Initial release in Japan: December 28, 1957; 89 minutes)



2nd) Battle in Outer Space (宇宙大戦争 Uchū Daisensō) (Initial release in Japan: December 26, 1959; 93 minutes)



3rd) Great Planet War: The War in Space (惑星大戦争 The War in Space Wakusei Daisensō: Za uō in Supēsu (Initial release in Japan: December 17, 1977; 91 minutes)



"isn't strange that everything about them comes in threes?" Robert Cornthwaite as Dr. James Pryor quote from The War Of The Worlds (1953).
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